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( Recap – In previous parts, I mentioned what circumstances induced me to plan for my evening walk and further I told about the park, where I planned my stroll. )
The park of my colony had two gates, in the way that one gate had its entrance on the North side and another just opposite on the South side. If someone takes entrance from my colony side gate, he had to confront the North side. It facilitated the Stroller in the sense that on the completion of half of the jogger’s lane you reach at the Southern entrance gate. Majority of strollers often used to begin their walk , on entering from the North side gate and happened to turn to the left side of the jogger’s lane. But as usual, I have ever been ridden by some misconceptions about my self. I have got my own doctrines, hence when I began my evening stroll drive, I ever initiated it anti- clockwise.
Benefits of my anti clock wise stroll
I used to begin my walk by taking right side of the lane from the gate. It had many gains. In this way I could become face to face to the crowd of people who were taking clockwise stroll, when I happened to cross their stroll. Since, in park women too happened to take a stroll, it benefited me to watch them by looking directly at their face. Women, it seemed to me happened to take a walk, with the sheer intent to keep themselves physically fit. This facility to watch the women helped encourage me to continue my walk. One thing I discovered, in one single round of the jogger’s lane, I was to obtain this facility to watch their faces twice. It was so pleasant and boosted my drive for evening stroll.
Women strollers in the park
Reader is suggested, not to conceive a thought that in park only beautiful women come to keep themselves physically fit. No… No.. ! That’s not true. You rarely find paltry two to three young and beautiful faces in the crowd. Otherwise, crowd consists of women with lack luster face with grotesque and asymmetrical figures only. Never, from any angle you can put them into the category of “so beautiful.” Since, it’s the psyche of man, he discovers some beauty in the face of every woman, in this or that way to console his heart. The same phenomenon occurred with me. Truly say, the faces of many such women reminded me of a used soap tablet, which had lost all its foam. Such left over flat piece of a soap, we Indians use to wash our hand after coming out of the toilet.
Though, one thing was common about these women, all these women happened to visit the park after applying heavy make – up on their lack luster faces. No doubt, along with proper hair doing, as if, going to some fashion parade. This self consciousness about the application of cosmetics in women, clarifies the old saying, “ never a woman concedes , she has become older.”
Men strollers
The male strollers in the park too had several categories. These people, though had entered into old age phase like me, but they too tried hard to look young. For the purpose, they happened to apply hair dye into the hair and in moustache. This category though was given to stroll in natural posture with their back slightly bent. But when overtaking the group of women in their brisk walk , they happened to walk with their “back in straight posture,” like a strut of a Cock hen. Surprisingly, after some paces of the stroll ahead, the spring of their back spine too get loosened and they resumed the same “bend posture” again.
The another category of men, was of the same old age group. Though they used to visit the park in the name of brisk walk, but it was like, as if, they were dragging their body mass helplessly under some constrain. A permanent expression, I ever found rested on their face. This expression candidly claimed, ” Jesus ! For what a heck , I am here for a walk. It’s like a torture only.” But amazingly, they visited the park daily, as if, under some injunction from the family. Whenever, I used to pass through such group, some entertaining bites filtered into my ears.
These were of this kind. “O K boss, just two years are left for the retirement from the service.” Or. ” We didn’t get the benefit from the recently promulgated pay commission recommendations,” or ” My senior officer is son of a bitch. Just you look the impact of curse of we subordinates cast upon him in near future. He is doomed to suffer from high blood pressure and sugar level, I assure you, certainly he will dye by his kidney failure.”
Other beneficiaries of park
Often stray dogs too visited the park, and the same bits of talk of such group too was supposed to filter into the ears of these dogs. Never I could confirm, whether the abusive epithets, “son of bitch” made them worry about the health of their own kidney. Again, women who were on the slope of adult hood, whenever found some young woman properly clad and up date, it made them enrage. In their own group they mocked at the young woman by commenting, “what a sinister time has approached, young women have abandoned all the virtue of shyness and blush.” It all was out come of the dog instinct of women. They are always jealous of another woman. Just they should find a minor opportunity to criticize another woman only.So, Gentleman, In this kind of colorful air, my evening was advancing properly and I was enjoying this all. But mean while a major incidence occurred with me there. ( Cont’d).. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi …..
